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Amid the intense colors of a foreign land, JIM LIVES isthe story of a man searching for his son–a correspondent for a popularamerican newspaper–who vanished into thin air after sending one last,enigmatic message: “Jim Morrison isn’t dead. He’s hiding outin Italy. I saw him with my own eyes. I’ll call you tomorrow and tell youeverything...” Come along with theCreators of PAUL IS DEAD as they reveal the second chapter in their“conspiracy trilogy:” a new, fascinating vision of the mostmysterious l...

Holly's family move to the old house so her dad can do his job: bulldozing the ancient trees to make way for a housing estate. But there's something haunting the old house. Something old, and angry, that doesn't want the trees cut down. Something alive... Highly readable, exciting books that take the struggle out of reading, Wired encourages and supports reading practice by providing gripping, age-appropriate stories for struggling and reluctant readers or those with English as an additional la...

London, November 1966. John Lennon can't speak, he can't take his eyesoff a photo of a car in flames with the body of Paul McCartney inside. Hisfriend is no longer there, and that means the Beatles are no longer there,either. But John wants to know the truth, and with George and Ringo, he startsto re-examine the final hours in Paul's life. Set in the magical atmosphere of Abbey RoadStudios during the writing sessions for Sgt. Pepper, the definitiveversion of the legend of the Paul McCartney's...

It's the sticky-hot summer of 1968, and in the American Deep South it's a time of home-made lemonade and The Beatles on the radio, but also civil rights rioting and Vietnam war protests. Even for Alice the storm clouds are gathering.Her mother's new boyfriend crashed into Alice's life and upsets the delicate balance of the household with his prejudiced attitudes towards Edna, the maid, and Doc, the family gardener. Alice desperately wants to do what's right, and she knows she has some had choice...

Flame is about a kid named E.J. But he's no ordinary kid. He has extraordinary abilities, and uses melanin as a power. E.J. encounters obstacles beyond measure from enemies that want to destroy him. Eventually, E.J. learns to how master his melanated powers--not only to combat those who hinder him, but also to save the entire universe.

It’s 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed ‘Yankee Girl’ and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie – one of the school’s first black students – has it much worse.Alice can’t stand the way Valerie is treated, and yet she knows she will remain an outsider if she speaks up. It takes a horrible tragedy to finally give Alice the courage to stand up for what she believes.Set in the Deep South in the 1960s, Yankee Gi...

  Discover all the foul facts about the Awesome Egyptians with history's most horrible headlines. All the foul facts about the Awesome Egyptians are ready to uncover, including: which king had the worst blackheads why some kings had to wear false beards and why the peasants were revolting. • fully illustrated throughout and packed with horrible stories – with all the horribly hilarious bits included...

'A grudge is a sentiment that is chained down and cannot move. That fixed sentiment becomes sadness, and when that sadness remains chained with no escape...it becomes hostile...' Baek-On and Ho-Yeon are exorcists-for-hire, traveling throughout the country in search of grudges and ghosts. Each encounter reveals a story of tragedy and loss, sentiments they are all too familiar with themselves. But sometimes the violence of the most murderous spirits is nothing compared to the cruelty of the living...

Illustrated in vivid colour, 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga is an epic story that follows one Indigenous family over three centuries and seven generations. This compiled edition was originally published as a series of four graphic novels: Stone, Scars, Ends/Begins, and The Pact. Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family’s past if he is to have any future. Edwin learns of his ancestor, Stone, a Plains Cree warrior who came of age in the early 19th century. When Stone’...

Isabel spent her life following Jane's lead. Literally-of the two conjoined twins, Jane was always the stronger one, both physically and emotionally. But when Jane dies on the operating table during a risky attempt to separate the twins, Isabel is left alone. Or is she? Soon, Jane returns, attached to Isabel from shoulder to hip just like she used to be. Except Isabel is the only person who can see Jane-a ghost, a phantom limb, a phantom twin. Against a vivid backdrop of the hardscrabble life...

After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.

Creator Lora Innes writes and illustrates the tale of 17-year-old Beatrice "Bea" Whaley, a student who begins having vivid dreams about a brave and handsome soldier named Alan Warren… a member of an elite group known as Knowlton’s Rangers that fought during the Revolutionary War. Prone to keeping her head in the clouds, Bea welcomes her nightly adventures in 1776; filled with danger and romance they give her much to muse about the next day. But it is not long before Beatrice questions whether he...

Join troublemaker Delilah Dirk for a headlong plunge into adventure! Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an Indiana Jones for the 19th century. She has travelled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights he...

The world is thinnest at The Crossroads, a mythicalplane that serves as a doorway throughout the universe. It is here that a bandof adventurers throughout the Wild West gather, brought together by GordCantrell and Abigail Redmayne with a singular purpose: to fight back against thecreatures that would endanger the sanctity of allcreation. SHADOW ROADS, a stand-alone story,is the set in the world that remains after the conclusion of Cullen Bunn, BrianHurtt and Bill Crabtree’s critically-acclaim...

The journey of a Jewish partisan during the Holocaust. The Holocaust is an event greater than the sum of the survivor testimonies and the stories of its six million victims. It is an event beyond the capacity of the human brain to contain. It deserves to be described not only in testimonies and documentation, but in legends. Judessey depicts the journey of Leon, a Jewish professor from Poland who finds himself in the midst of World War II, who strives to find his way home while battling the m...